Odinism

Odinism is a pagan new religious movement which originated in the 19th and early 20th centuries as a part of the Romanticist movement. The movement glorified the pre-Christian beliefs of Germanic societies, and groups venerating the Germanic gods developed in Germany and Austria as a part of the far-right Voelkisch movement. Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party made use of German paganism to propagate their radical racial views and policies, and the movement declined following Nazi Germany's destruction during World War II. In the 1970s, new Odinist groups emerged in Europe and America, and it came to have 20,000 practicioners in Europe, the Americas, and Oceania.